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;:PfTSi PJ'tW,-VV;ri ".r r.AX'i irvaEVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, SEPTOMBER 9, 1021rV'uIW1!'.'BLINraK4T3.-Mif111AKPiW-.PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANYCYllUtt II. K. OUKTIS, PilimcmJohn C, Martin, Vie PrasUWnt aJ Tr juurtrtCharles A. Tyler, HecreUry; Cliarles H. Ludlnjfton, rhtllp 8. Collins, John U. Williams. John J.Bpursaon. Otoria F. Ooldsmkb, David E. SmlWT,javtp k, mnt.ET nauc-r.JOHN O. MAUT1N.. ..Otneral Muslims lanfJubllahKl dally at Public Lnxiini nulldlnctlrnltrradinct Square. PhlU1lphl.n.lSTio ClTT Fress-Pnfam nulldlncbit Yons snt Madison Ave.rraerr T01 Ford Bulldlnrfir. Lome .....018 OMe-Demoerat BulMInCnioioo 1302 Trtlnini ButldlafNKwa uuiiEAUa:lApniNOTOM IlcmtiC,j JJ, te. Car. Pennsylvania Ave, and 14th BtJ"C TVIfS HcanC.-" -.,.,..,.. Th Bun JluildtnctoM Busbac Trafalgar JlulMInc. , KUIiarj.lPflON TKKM3TJa Krixixo Pcti Lroora li rerved to subttribsr In Phlladslphla anil surrounding townst 'he rate of twe) (12) cent! per week, payabletp the carrier.By, mull to point outside of rhlladlphla tnthe United Statu. Canada, or United States po.teealens, soatac free, fifty (50) cents par month.Is (18) dollar per year, payable In advance.To all foreign countries one til) dollar a mosthMOTioa Subscriber wlahlns address chantedMutt (Ive old aa well as new address,bkll. inoayArM'T Krvyroxr.. Mat.v uoiCT-tdrfrru all r tniMnlraflont to Evening I'ubUoit iMdoer, - denet Mtiunre, Philadelphia, Member of the Associated PressTHH ASSOCIATED PURRS ( txcliulvtlv ntitled to the ue for republication of all neuisdUpatche.l credited to It or not etheruHtt) credited11 "' pater, and alio the local neiot putllihedtherein.All riahtt r rfiwMlrnffon of tp'Cial dlnpatchehTrin are alto reserved.Nilladtlphla, Frld.r, Srptrmbrr . K"STEP ON THE CAS"Till? suggestion that one or two expertsIn the manufacture of gns be appointedto negotiate with tlic I'nlted Gas Improvement Company, mnile by a committee ofbusiness men to the Major. ignores the existence of the (ias Commission.That ciiinmixNion contains experts in theprotection of the Interests of the public whoarc not controlled In any way by publicservice corporations.It can be summoned at any time to giveto the cit the benefit of Ms sencral nndpcclal knowledge.It has made u careful and thorough tiurvcy of the gns .sitimtlou here in Its financialnd technical apeotf. .The president of the gas company has saidthnt he U confident of its intejrity and Usimpartiality.It Is not necevary to start another Investigation. All that icmains to be done Is to conelder the plans for the protection of the gasplant owned by the cit and the terms onwhich the gas company in to continue tooperate it.All the facts that one or two attaches ofsome other gas company could ascertain arcknown.It may be necessary 'to bring pressure tobear upon the city authorities; but even o,that pressure should be directed towardBpeedittg up action on tlic lines already laiddown instr "1 of toward stntting the wholeInquiry all over again.A FAKE WITH A COMEBACKFIS hardly worth while to inquire Intothe origin of the yarn that jury lists aromade up from the registration records. ThisUttcrlv false report has inspired in somewomen electors a reluctance to enroll asToters, and the. Board of Registration Commissioners has acted wisely in nailing the lie,''The jury lists are made up from theassessors' lists, not from the registrationlists," the commission explains. This language from the official statement is explicitand Incontrovertible.Registration Is ithe Indispensable preliminary to the exercise of the franchise rightImply that, nnd nothing more.Gnng workers, who perhaps arc vexedover the vigor with which the necessity ofenrollment has been emphasized, are naturally not ringing many doorbells in orderto bring about a really representative registration. False reports, like the nonsenseabout the jury lists, may favor for a timethe professional politicians' little game.But in the end intimidation of whatovcrsort is likely, when the truth is realized,.to defeat its own purpose. A new activityamong women registrants tomorrow may beexpected once they arc convinced that fictitious obstacles have been raised to preventtheir assumption of franchise privileges.ANIMAL TAMER NEEDEDEVERYBODY likes to rail at finingsquires like those who have been holding forth jubilantly at Melbourne andPaoli.' These men do manage to mix justiceand Injustice pretty equally In their dispensations, and it always has been andalways will be a matter of regret that legalpunishment when It is needed cannot beadministered even in a small communitywithout an attendant atmosphere of tecondrate comedy.But when a man confesses, as one didto Squire Leach at I'aoli yesterday, that hewas "doing" fifty miles an hour on themain roads and trying his best to make hisoar go faster, small-town justices and constables appear in a new light. Indeed, youfeel that an nnimal tamer rather than acountry squire is needeil to deal justly withthat particular sort of outlnw.A man who drives a powerful automoblloto tho limit of its speed endangers bis ownlife nnd the lives of others For n longtime ho prejudiced general opinion againstall motor drivers. He jus tifies fining squireswhen there is no other justification forthem,Tho man who drove at a fifty-mile ratethrough tho town of Pnoll got off with afine of $in.B0. That was light punishmentBo should have been put in jail and hislicense should have been revoked.I I'cnnsjlvanla ranks seventh among theStates In the valus of its crop T. ias beingfirst; and second amonj; the States in thevalue of Its agricultural products per squantmile, New York being first. This is In linewith all past experience. The greater thej, population the more lntensl the cultivationof the soil When we arc as closely packedas the people of Belgium, for instance, we'lljet more out of nn acre than we de now.Former service men nmrcnlng In afuneru." ,rocrislon in Auburn, Me., brokeranks I) beat up a passenger on n trollpycar who. they said, had refused to bare hishead when the colors pawed. This, wotake occasion to note, is not the way towin respect for tho liar. The Hag rcprerents tho law of the land. They desecratedtho flag when they took the law in theirown hands.Two bundled mid fifty thousand children trooped to school jesterdny. "fls asweetly solemn thought that in ten or fifteenyears from now 00 or 70 per cent of themwill neglect to register.;; ' i-'In It suggested that the Shipping Boardb placed under the Department of Comlacrce Instead of tho Treasury DepartmentIn order that It may more quickly get outof business?Once upon a time, be it noted, therewav iio essential difference between a bandwagon and an iishcnrt. This year. If thevoters are wise, It will be a chariot ofprogress,As an additional punishment for nonToiers, why not glrc (hem first chance forNEXT CONTROLLER MUST BE UNCONTROLLED!Why Candidato Edwin Wolf Declares Thl3 Vitally Important Offico ShouldBo Kopt "Free From Selfish Political or Buslno33Influoncos of Any Kind"By GEORGE NOX McCAINrpHE City Controller, next to tho Mayor, Is tho most Important official In Philadelphia. As a result of our local system of politics, tho office has boen relegated to acomparatively unimportant place.This condition is a result of deliberate design and failure to comply with thoprovisions of the now chnrtor.WillB. Hadley, tho present Controller, who Is seokinp; re-election as tho candidate of tho Combine bosses and tho friend of certain financial Interests, is largelyresponsible for this anomalous and, to tho taxpayers, costly condition.Mr. Hadley was named Controller, following tho death of John Walton, byGovernor Sproul Inst year. It was on the personal recommendation of MayorMoore. Ho could not have received the appointment without tho Mayor's indorsement. Immediately following his induction into office Controller Hadley Inaugurateda policy of secrecy and obstruction with regard to tho affairs of his office.He surrendered his officinl independence and prerogatives to the blandishmentsof the old Combine. He joined hands with tho enemies of Mayor Moore.Today Mr. Hadley is publicly attesting his fidelity to Combine rule by appearing as one of its star campaign orators.Detnlls of municipal finance, the piling up of excess reserves nnd other publicfunds in the hands of tho Sinking Fund Commission need not be presented at thistime. A few general facts will suffice.The city's sinking fund today contains approximately $48,000,000 in securitiesand cash. 'This vast sum is controlled by a Board of Commissioners, composed of MayorJ. Hampton Moore, E. T. Stotcsbury, of the banking firm of Drcxel & Co. and J.P. Morgan & Co., and WillB. Hadley, City Controller.The Mayor and City Controller are members by virtue of their offices. Thethird member is supposed to be elected annually by Council. No election has beenheld for years.Commissioner Stotcsbury is the financial adviser to the commission just asController Hadley is its accountant.Mayor Mooro is tho non-technicnl member. His knowledge of its Involvedaffairs, since he is not a banker or on accountant, must naturally depend largelyupon Information furnished by his colleagues.The affairs of the Sinking Fund Commission have been for years, but mostconspicuously of late, clouded in mystery. ItS meetings were held with hermeticallysealed doors. The public was rigorously excluded. Nothing was disclosed exceptsuch matters as were sanctioned by the Commissioners.In defense of this undemocratic proceeding Controller Hadley has declared thatthis board, holding millions of the public's money in its grasp, was a law unto Itself.That it was, in fact, an extra-judicial body.These star chamber sessions were persisted in until Mayor Moore became identified with tho commission. It was his insistence that the deliberations of theboard were public business that finally induced his .colleagues, Stotcsbury andHadley, to agree to public sessions.The taxpayers' interest in this matter, particularly the small house owner, towhom any reduction of the tax rate is of paramount importance, is apparent fromthe following fact.It is a leaf from the past record of the Sinking Fund Commission with whichevery taxpayer, big and little, should be familiar.Through the course of years there had been accumulated large sums that wereinactive These funds if taken from the hands of the commission and applied to thogcncral'expense fund of the municipality would, it was demonstrated, reduce thetax rate of the people.After a vast amount of quibbling and objection on the part of tho commissionCouncil finally obtained a small part of these excess funds, amounting to $1,160,000,which reduced the tax rnte proportionately that year.How much excess reserve is now held by the commission which might beavailable to reduce the present tax rate is a problem. The people at least aroentitled to know tho facts.Under the present system of accounting it is a matter of surmise. Reports onthe subject arc so meager as to carry no information or else conceal tho facts.Controller Hadley has openly defied Council. A resolution asking for fullinformation on its affairs has never been answered.Demands in the past for full information concerning the loans and reserves,amounting to millions of dollars, have brought out the suggestion from certainlarge financial interests that, if persisted in, the effect would be to injure the city'scredit in tho bond markets of tho country.Was this a truculent threat held over the heads of honest and disinterestedinquirers by individuals who desired to control tho city's millions in the SinkingFund?Controller Hadley has been a party to a policy of secrecy. He has taken refugein the defense, if not expressed in words at least in deeds, that "it is none of thopublic's business."Two successive Controllers of the great State of New York nssumed the sameattitude and they were indicted.The imperative need, as a solution to this state of affairs, is the election to thecontrollership of a man fearless of publicity and with no special interests to serve,one familiar with public affairs and public financing; concretely, a City Controllerwho will fling open the barred windows of the office and let the public havo a glimpseof its inner workings.In this connection a sentence from the letter of Edwin Wolf, accepting thenomination of the Voters' League to be its candidato for City Controller, is pertinent:"As I view it," says Mr. Wolf, "the administration of tho office of Controllershould bo strictly in line with clear legal directions, along modern and progressivelines and entirely free from selfish political or business influences of any kind."PENROSE SCUTTLES THE JOB COMBINEOENVrOR PENROSE'S chapter and verse indorsement of tho Voters' Leaguecandidates and Mayor Moore's Administration blew the Job Combine full of holes.The fifty-fifty deal went into smithereens when he named each one of the menon the reform ticket and asked that the people of Philadelphia nominate them onSeptember 20 in the name of decent government.No longer can there be any doubt in the minds of tho local political leaders thatthe Senator is in earnest in denouncing the Vares and all their political nnd contractual works.Not a single division, ward or district leader wUo wishes to maintain hisallegiance to the State leader in the coming fall of Federal patronnge manna willdare to double-cross him by failing to fight tho Vnrc earmarked slate with allmight and main.It is puerilo to pretend that all of the Penrose following will work against thoVare outfit solely in the interests of the moral issues involved in the present situation. They won't. Thoy will t'o it becauso they cannot afford to permit the Varesto win, since that would be a severe blow to the prestige of Senator Penrose, nowthat he has come out categorically in favor of each mnn on tho Voters' League slate.But whatever the motive of his followers, thero is no doubt tha,t tho Senator'sflat declaration of continuing and unremitting war upon tho Vares will bring apowerful force behind the independent Republicans who ure seeking to save thoparty in Philadelphia from further prostitution to tho base ends of the Contractors' Combine.With any intelligent response by the vast body of the voters, it ought to be afairlv sure thlnir that tho job of cleaning the Republican organization will bo completed this f'l and the dirty remnants and mess which hnvo littered it up sinco thodays of the Fifth Ward murder gunmen shall be swept into tho nshcan without achance ot ever being dragged out again.If that shall be the effect, Senator Penrose ought to have hie full meed ofcredit for lending his asslstanco with the unqualified and vigorous words of yesterday. Any worker who thinks there was a mental reservation or a wink of tho eyoaccompanying the denunciation is likely to meet with a teeth-rattling jar tho dayafter the primory, The "old man" isplainly out for blood. f- . .AS ONE WOMAN SEES ITStory of How Lister, the English8urgaon, Adaptsd Paateur'a Theoryof Germs to His Uaa Intho 8urgeryDy SARAH D. LOWKIE vI WAS spending a week-end with a friendthis summer and, being rather wakefulone night, I lighted tho lamp oh ray nightstand and fell to reading a book that Ifound there ready at baud.It waa a biography of Lord Lister, thegreat Kngllsh surgeon of the late nineteenthcentury, nnd the discoverer of modern antiseptic treatment.He took Pasteur's discovery of germs andturned it to practical uso In his surgery.Ono forgets that before he proved that suppuration of wounds camo from an infectionfrom the outside, nnd could bo counteracted and even obviated by sterilizing applications before nud during and after operations, the hospitals had been veritablepestbouscs and about every operation lathree fatal. The feeling that Ignorant persons had, up until a tow years ago, thatto go to a hospital meant sure death, wasfounded on only too terrible nn cxpcrlcncoof the poor who were taken there lebs thana century ago.It seems strange that until Lister's greatdiscoveries and steadfast putting them topractical account doctors did not guardthemselves or their patients by wearing protective clothes or gloves, by washing theirhands even, or by boiling their Instruments,or preparing the surface to be cut Into inany antiseptic way. 'The ufrcr-drcsalng of the wounds was ascareless from a modern point of view as.the preliminary preparation, and the terriblehospital gangrene, tho dccp-icnted abscesses,the almoht inevitable retardation of healingwere taken as a matter of course by doctorsnnd nurses, as was nlso tho sickening hospital smell which arose from those veritablyputrefying sores.THE rich suffered less than the poor, because they could be nursed at home inrooms uncontnminatcd by the germs of pastoccupants, but even for tho well-to-do toichwounds as came from compound fractures,or crushed flesh or the cuttingH of cancerousor tumor growths wcro more often fatalthan not. The story of "Hnb nnd Ills Friends"was n hospital cxpcrlcnco of Lister's dayand written by a fellow surgeon. Tho aftereffect of tho operation was a matter ofcourse In Dr. Brown's practice and vetwould be very unusual today, due to Lister'sunllagglng efforts to make Brown aud thoother surgeonB see that that septic poisonof the blood was due to a germ, not frompoibon springing up from within.THE strange thing nbout it was that thegreat surgeons of Edinburgh and of London and America would not nccept the germtheory as a proved fact for twelve years ormore nftcr Lister had demonstrated It inhis surgical wards in Glasgow, then in Edinburgh and finally in London. Onlv theyounger men believed in it and adoptedLister's methods to forestall septic poisoning in their patients by nntlbeptic treatment.I remember as n young girl hearing Dr.Hnycs Agnew, who was n master surgeonnnd world-fnmous, Inveigh against the"germ theory" to my mother over a hurt ofmne that he was treating.And the doctors who used to drive theirown carriages camo straight up from handling their reins into the sickroom and undidthe bandages and dressed the wounds without any moro thought ns to the btatc oftheir hnnfls than they had ns to the posbibleinfection from the beards that most of themwore and more or less smoothed thoughtfully while they questioned the patient.ALL this was Inevitable ns long ns thetheory of tho infection of wounds wasbnsed on a belief that the outside nir engendered fever nnd that the poibon inwounds was generated from within, Intentin the body, und, therefore, Inevitable in ugreater or lesser degree according to thopatient's power of resistance. But whatstrikes tho lay reader with amazement wasthe willful blindness of the notable surgeonsof Lister's own day to tho facts thut hepresented to them to nt least verify or todisprove. It seemed thnt the very factthnt tho older men among his contemporaries had bnsed their practice on theorythat ignored germs inade them unwilling toconfess their mistakes by revolutionizingtheir methods.They dismissed the germ Idea withoutbeing nt pains to understand it. let alonetry It, and by doing so thoy delayed theintroduction of modern antiseptic methods, inthe hospitals of Great Brituin for more thantwclvo years. By virtue of their nge nndreputation they held control of the Bchoolsof medicine and the great operation clinicsand tho wards.THERL" seems to be almost ns great dangerof a physician's becoming ingrained Inhis prejudices ngainbt progress as a theologian ; his very success seems to tempt himto bo btntlc rather than fluid in his thoughtprocesses,One sees thnt today among alienists. Thereis a new school of joung discoverers whoare working on the theory thnt disease ofthe mind are, many of them, symptoms ofdlsenbcs of tho body, nnd these new thinkershave to fight step by step the establishedauthorities in their prejudice for treatinginsanity only above the neck.The younger men nnd the men with joungminds nro Interested to study nt least thetheory of making the body accountable forthe mind, but tho great majority of theleading men in the profession nro franklyindifferent. Their classification of curubloand Incurable cases of insanity Is satisfactory to them: they have moro patients thanthey can well attend to, their reputationsare made and to revolutionize the wholeprocedure nnd n-organizo their sanitariumsnnd clinics and hospltnls would be to themunthinkable.And yet the general public, and, above all,tho younger generation ot doctors who nrucoming on, will inevitably scrap all theirmctnous u wiomj niewious are unbeu on mistaken conclusions. A physician's authorityrests on the belief of the public in his nlwnyskeeping well in tho van of scientific discovery. A WOMAN" that I know quoted a greatNew York bnby doctor ns saying,apropos of a new theory of feeding babies,that hu wasn't interested enough in it tolisten to it, let nlonb rend it up, or try Itout. Her comment wns that that wasenough to damn him in her eje.s.The particular theory In. as it happens,being carried out In u hospital in Rye, NewYork, nnd thnt cver-joung authority onbnbles, Dr. Holt, 1h pledged to try It outIn his hospital In New Yoik City thin yar.It Is Dutch In lis origin nnd some expertsIn prepnrlng the milk have been broughtover from Holland to the Rje hospital totest the food for n jear on the babies thatcome under tho supervision of that hospitaland clinic.The mills is sour and the founula for Itspreparation calls for somo Hour. Tho bottlesore prepared twice u week for tlu babiesnnd aro not allowed to get cold thev mayeven stnnd In the nuiscry or any ordinarilyheated room. Tho fluid itself in not onlygerm-proof, but It is nntlseptlc,AS AN example of how a demand fiomtho laity will help with a niopngnndaof this sort, tho woman who told mo nbouthor experience with the success of tillsparticular process from what she knew ofthe Rye hospital, went on to say that shehad asked the doctor in charge of a babyhospital In her own town to try It out withsome very ill babies that were wasting away,apparently from malnutrition. The formulas wcro procured and studied nnd triedout with success In each case, nnd n icrycomprehensive study of tho whole theurywns set in inuuun ior cunicui use ns aFor'tunntflr the physician la this enso wasopen-minded, nnd, like Dr. Holt, perennially young, and bo not afraid to try outa now and possibly a better way of doingpla work.LOOKSAMsure,OOT- M j"- ..-x .' ..' - .3rz&trzfeNOW MY IDEA IS THISDaily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects TheyKnow BestFRANCES R. BARTHOLOMEWOn Settlement WorkTHH nbandonment of the Eighth WardSettlement after a period of activity oftwenty-three years may ultimately result inthe establishment of settlement work elsewhere and prove to be the ounce of prevention which Is worth tho pound of cure inpreventing various "Hell's Half Acres"now In the process of formation in otherparts of the city, If the plans of Miss FrancosR. Bartholomew, head of the Eighth WordSettlement since its inauguration, arc carried out."My idea of real settlement work," saidMiss Bartholomew, In discussing what hadbeen accomplished In the Eighth Ward, "Isto nrcvent the formation of such conditionsas I found here when I camn into this worknearly a quarter of a centurv ngo. Then, theneighborhood being n frankly criminal one,the effort had to be a tremendous one toget any responso whatever. No one butexperienced workers can know whnt thiswork really means."The work of the Eighth Ward Settlement, bb the namo Indicntes, was confinedto that ward, but it wns not n hnppy choicefor a name and It led to misunderstandings,some humorous nnd others not nt all so.On one occasion I found the house nearlyswamped with a regular enrgo of beer andwhisky which had been sent here nnd whichthe driver insisted had been consigned to'the Eighth Ward Club,' and this must bethe right place. Of course It was meantfor tho ward political club, nnd finally theygot it where it belonged. But there wereother incidents in which the name of thesettlement figured which were not so humorous. The "Vlllago of Vice""Wc worked definitely In 'Hell's HalfAcre,' as it came Generally to lx known.This territory extended from Eighth toTwelfth street nnd from AVnlnut to Spruce.It wns also known as the 'Village of Vice,'and It hud Its own customs and laws andthe city skirted around It."It presented n curious manifestation ofcity conditions of twenty-three years ago.Being politically protected made It almostImpossible to do much effective work, andIt was an almost constant fight not onlyngulnst tho criminals, but against the politicians who protected them."It Is true thnt the population was overwhelmingly Negro, but tho real renson fortlic crime wus human depravity, protectedby political agencies."Nor mubt it be supposed that all theresidents of this district were criminals.There wcro ninny good families: nnd Individuals who lived In this particular district, andthese were lot alone and wore respected bynil. That they were unfortunate In theirliving environment nppaicntly made no difference to these strong i harncters.Origin of tho Small House"Tho small house for which Philadelphiais noted all over the countiy nlso had Itsinception In this district. Most of thohouses here are ery old and they were builtby the wealthier class of people for theirhelpers and scrvnnts In the day when Eighthand Chestnut streets was the western frontier of the city. As these people movedaway to other neighborhoods as the cityspread the houses formerly occupied by theirbcrvants fell to n constantly Increasing lessdesirable 'class, until finally it became thoVlllago of Vice.'"Another curious manifestation ot thework of the settlement was tho fact thattho neighborhood Itself never became betterbecause of the higher ideas which the settlement put Into tho heads of those who werecapable of being reached and who were willing to assimilate and uct upon such Ideus.Ah the desire to improve themselves yobowithin them they did not remain here toput those Ideas into practice. Instead, theymoved to other parts of the city, and theirplaces were taken by those who preferred tolive amid such surroundings, thus leavingthe settlement only tho dregs with which towork all the time."The result of this was that the best workrepresenting tho endeavors of tho settlement1h now nnd bus been for years In other partsof the city, while many others through ourwork went to school, some even to college,and many of these sought their life workoutside of the city altogether.Criminology and Sentimentality"Contrary to tho general belief of thepublic, It Is rarely If ever that tho criminalwants a 'chance.' It is ridiculous to suppose for a moment that an overnight prayermeeting will transform a criminal Into agood man."As a rule the criminal is made of poorstuff, and tho real truth about crime andcrlminuln are nevjr tho things that peoplethink, Crime Is for more often the resultof weakness of character thnn nnvitn i-JyAs a matter of fact, It takes almost ai muchLIKE A, "KILL" FROM HERE- : -w .v- r. , a s:"J-4-H- fl -w-h M-.JSa,jf.fSSHatBfli:iWnlm ..li-twi"1 " " rTtMtfcTrr.. --. -n.-rrr'i'u---v-SiXV,. " ts,-' "ftLU'TrViAf3LJi.ijAVrrmm.rz:LW ,J-",1s; tJIBCj .g.'r'-Mww s , -tT;!fe -swx&miMjaaM... j' "-w"' -.-: r UHH-.T.a T7f.'ai:X'J&Gi2AJ..J- -,...real character to be n good criminal as tobe a good mnn."As a result of tho dissatisfaction withtheir conditions which our teachings; createdIn the younger people, they loft their homesnnd wont elsewhere to live. This broughtupon us the anger of their parents, becausethey were thus deprived of a source of Income, nud we had boiiip very unpleasantscenes in the Settlement House nbout it."I remember oiiq mnn who had read ofconditions In the Eighth Ward nnd he camedown hero, quite upset, and said that hedidn't believe that an thing so bad existedlu the city, accusing us of exaggeration andof trjing to obtain unwarranted publicity.I told him to take n walk around the neighborhood 'and come bnck in an hour or soand tell what ho had seen and heard. Hodid so, and, being an honest man, returnedand .admitted that things were far worsethan they had been reported;Real Settlement Work"Real settlement work Is the personalcontact of the pettlcmcnt workers with theneighborhood in which they are located.Perhaps in this wny only a few lives aretouched, but this is the real purpose of thework. Our settlements nowadays hnve outgrown In size the original Ideas of the firstworkers, and ns a Tcsult they arc too big toget into the intinintc conduit with the neighborhood which renders them valuable."Settlement woik Is, or should be, sharing the lives of the neighborhood with thoresidents of it, and not a great institution.In the new work which I hope to do I wantto go bnck to the original plan nnd keep thesettlement small. In saying this 1 feel that1 am not saying anything in opposition totho feelings of most settlement workcis,who realize that their plants are too bigand who deplore it."Entll tho time when the newspapers exposed the situation in the Eighth Ward ourwork wiib exclusively with the children, nndthere was plenty to do. AVo were lecelvedwith courtesy in nil homes in the word nslong ns our efforts were confined to thechildren. But when tho papers exposed thewhole neighborhood It wns either back outaltogether or do n new thing nnd antagonizetho whole situation. Wc decided to stickit out."It was then that we stepped out of thenursery und into the Rneak-easy and brothel.Naturally, we met with all kinds of opposition. Politicians made sugar-coated promises which they never Intended to keep, butns a matter of fnct no one up to that timehad paid any attention to the neighborhood.Crime wus open nnd generally unpunished.Lilt when the situation wns published thepoliticians hail to bnck down and the policehad to 'buck up.' The ejes of the city wereupon uh nnd the bnckhono of tho neighborhood crime was broken.that summer.Tho Greek Influx"Wc had to meet the embnrrawslng situation that many of the worst houses wereowned by persons of high standing, and onoof the newspapers published a list of theowners of those houses and, of course thevhad to 'clean up' immediately. Hundredsof the old people left nnd the (Irceks beganto swarm In, creating a new atmosphere.Many small streets formerly colored nre nowGreek entirely. It hns hecomo Inrgely abusiness section, and business has been thalargest factor in the change iu tho ehnracterof the neighborhood. The whole place isgoing to be a memory in a very short timeIt was unique, very dlffeient from nnythliizelbe In the city, and many of the characterswho lived here will never bo forgotten bythose of us who knew them."The sentimental ideas regarding viceand reform do tremendous harm to worksuch as ours. Tho criminal is usually ncriminal because ho wants to bo one. andthere Is no kid-glove work nbout Irving "toreform htm. It la n wm,,.. ,. " i.lu?iVMil,.,"A1.t" " Pj"nIer.tandlnB. i?i.... . i :..."'" ! . -u ."" ?nowsthis"" "'"" ""J criminal Himselfand heiuuvb every nuvniitngn of It'Vt u .ifr.i....i.. i ..... ... iimi.ri) i-iiycu wiui, crime mustbe been In the glare of sunlight and not i,tho moonlight of sonttmentnllty. You Vanmake an old tin can beautiful In moonlight,nnd to cent mentality even crlmo may bomme. t(!i '"1 ' n"rnvo. ut the tin canstll s the tin can and crime still Is "rimeWhat we have been able to do 1ms i beenlargely becauso the criminals knew that w"could not l.o fooled nnd that there was in,uso In bluffing. And In the end he respectsus more for it. "uma"With the end of this work hero I hopeto be able to go to son... other parts ofcity where there aro conditions which will-?,i.H,w"Tl '"VT-i'tltlou of tlm oEighth Ward dnys If they aro not taken nowand stopped. Now It would not b difficultto correct these conditions, but If thov arcnot checked soon work such uh It has takenwill all have to be done orei again "1"" mst,i-"V SUdu....ssssssmWhat Do You Know?QUIZ1. Who unld "Many aro called, but few tttup"?2. What Is a tilde?3. Who was Klnpr at Franco at tho time ottho discovery of America by Co-lumDuniI. Whnt waa tho year of the great hurricane) In Galveston, Tex 7B. What Is tho largest nation In the worllwiinoui n sencoastvC. Whcro nnd what Is Muscle Shoals?7. Who wrote tho quatrain beginning, '1novcr saw a purple cow"?8. Against whom did Samuel J. Tllden runfor President of tho United States?0. When did Garibaldi die?10. What nro tho principal sources of Illuminating gas 7Answers to Yesterday's Quiz '1. Voltnlrp spent most qf his life In 'thseighteenth century, His dates an16D4-1778. His real name was Francols Mnrlo Arouet. On his release fromthe Dastlllo In 171S he began to wr!Unls nnmo Arouet do Voltalrs.2. The so-called "Five Intolcrnbla Acts" elthe American devolution were enforced by tho British authorities InMassachusetts. Tho first, authorlitdon Juno 1, 1774. closed tho port of 'uniuu iu nu commerce, save iooo,fuel and mllltnty supplies: Onsecond remodeled tho charter of Musachusetts "to take nway tho cxecutlripower from tho hands of the demcratlc parts of tho Clovornment" ; thlthird provided thnt English ollicera ormaiilot! atea charged with capital offenso.s should be tried In some othercolony or lu KnRland : tho fourtJcalled for tho billeting of toldlers othe peoplo who failed voluntarily Uprovide tultulile quarters, and tlififth w-as tho Quebec Act. which extended tho boundaries of Quebec prorInco to tho Ohio Illvcr, taking Itwhnt are now the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and AVIsconsIn, anaestablishing therein an nrbltrnry formof government.3. Tho Conway Cnbnl of tho AmericanRevolution was engineered by ThoraaiConway, nn Irishman who had looibeen in the service of France He hjaserved In tha American Army in tinbattlos of lirnndywlne and Ciernian' 'town, nnd was about to bo promoteswhen Washington, believing the movmont to bo unwise, protested. Conway was offended and concocted aschomo to overthrow Washington unatn l.,..i.A nn.on tn tu nlnnA ThTl&nwns exposed bya memocr oi uwRtnff iinilAP thnInfiuenco ot liquor.Shortly afterward Conway, oxpeenn.to dlo fiom n woundrcceivea induel, wroto to Washingtonsincere reerct for tho nlot.exprcsslri4. Tutulla 1b tho name of tho chief Island ofAmerican Samoa In tho Soulh raclflC6. Levi P. Morton was Vice President of thtUnited Stateu under Benjamin r,rlson.C. Tamplco, the oil port of Mexico. I U;....! .. .1... ). nt TavIi-h flbOUlolghty miles toutli of tho Iroplo o:Cancer.7.Tho Secretary of tho Treasury and thiMecrotnry or state sit nexi iuPresident at tho Cabinet table.Honry VII wan ICInjr of England at itime ot tne discovery oi in.ci...Tho Uulte of Wellington declared ''Noinir except a battle lost can b hallmelancholy as a battlo won.Tho treaty of pence between the AIH'nnd Hungary Is called tho Ureaty oiTrianon.10SHORT CUTSIt isn't reformed spclllug that mainVdyestuffs die stuffs.Since Germany hns paid her Aupujdues Mr. Keynes Is probably not so surehe was that figures en n't lie.The declaration that no sharks bare jbeen reported nt the shore applies irwto the water variety. Hooch Is somctuwielse again.1 KWhen Congress views the TrcawrfJestimate of Government needs it n"y,?n,,'"over tlic renlUation that here is a Methat can't be cut., . ,Not the least instructive trip '"arft!incut conferees could take, suy late in w ftobcr, would be one along tho entire lbujdlnn bonier, where nothing more " 'Is to be soon than wilds on hooch.The per npltn circulation In Aufi"was fifty-nine cents less than In 3uh..x.,nmount Ik easily accounted for w '" Mthe hay fcvurlte Is concerned. V0., nti. .handkerchiefs marked down from sUty ",'Congressman Hcrrlck favors a lll Pjghlbltlng girls from seeking to go n K.stage. Wo mWht hayu he wtt T.fooiiBiincsu if iJnnrri'M nu rrviuw"".,v.,..l ...... ...l.ll,r.i.,.. I,nli..lnr from ?"dmm$' tiwm$Mte&3?mm tmmmmMm-mL-:iulng elective officios,X.'&i " 1 -V& .tflK.--' t -9T " " i - ..aL!,.- -fifs-t-i! c,rv i'j!. ,-V.t '.' L',V j'ijfitjnlioi.1 jysii'- rtwAN